The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-26 00:00:00

k I I I , • SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. To say that any one of the industrius classes has an in terest in the present Corn-laws, is to state a gross fallacy. The common mode of dividing the country into landed and commercial interests, is palpably incorrect. The in terest of all is the same. The manufacturers of food have the same interest that the manufacturers of everything else have—to produce as cheaply as possible. The sum paid to the owners of the soil for permission to cultivate it, enables a certain class of men to live in idleness, and so long as this class does not avail itself of its power in the Legislature to force up the price of agricultural produce, with a view to add to rent, no one will grudge them this source of income. But this idle class is quite distinct from the productive agriculturists, who have the same interest with all the other productive classes. Where tenants occupy lands on lease, subject to rents calculated on monopoly prices, they have, no doubt, to a certain extent, the same interest as their land lords during the currency of their leases ; but the protection of the Corn-laws, as they find to their cost, is often' falla cious. The landlord will exact his rent calculated on mo nopoly prices, so long as the tenant possesses anything; but the tenant cannot always obtain the price necessary to en able him to pay the rent. The cultivation of land must not be suffered to be longer a gambling occupation for the be efitof landowners ; but all classes of producers must be -eleased from all restrictions enhancing the costs of produc tion. The productive classes - have but one enemy—the Squirearchy. That enemy must be combated, and we forsee that the time has at length come when the monopo lists may be effectually combated. The amount of pro perty embarked in the various pursuits of industry in this country is enormous. When people talk of a stake in the country, we will ask, what is the stake possessed by the Aristocracy, compared with that of the various classe s o f manufacturers ? On the sup position that, in the House of Lords, one Peer with another are the possessors of 8,0001. a-year, that would not amount two millions and a half a-year. It would not surprise us if the incomes of the gentlemen present in the Chamber of Commerce at Manchester on Thursday last equalled that sum. Are these great interests through out the country, then, to be exposed to ruin because one Aristocrat has so involved himself that a slight deduction from his rents would transfer his whole estate to the mort gagee, and another is so tied up with settlements that any change in the nominal amount of rent would irretrievably embarass him ? This is a question perfectly distinct from that of party. We support Ministers in opposition to the Tories, not because we approve of the conduct of Ministers in every thing, but because we make allowance for the difficulties in which they are placed ; and because we conceive it would be most detrimental to the country to allow their places to be occupied by thine who have been the great obstacles in the way of their doing more good. But we are not the slavish supporters of Ministers. We ad vocate the repeal of the Corn-laws, not because we expect them to propose such a repeal, but because a paramount interest demands it—the interest of the nation. Minis ters are but men, and as lords of the soil their sympathies are with the aristocracy, and not with the nation. But as prudent• men, who can read the signs of the times, the demonstrations of the industrious classes throughout the country will not be lost on them. What we propose, is, that between this and the meeting of Parliament, not a day be lost in creating such an agitation as may speak to the prudence of the aristocracy, when Ministers must be forced to propose a repeal of the Corn-laws, and may hope to carry it. Let us remember the proverb constantly in the mouths of those whet effected the July Revolution— " Aide toi et Dieu t'aidera." Let us put our shoulders to the wheel. We are prepared, as during the Reform Bill, to hear a deal of swaggering about scorning to be driven, and so forth. All Government must give way to general opinion suitably directed. But why should we assume that the landown ers will be insensible to the arguments about to be aged from all quarters ? We do not believe that in taxing Ole rest of the community, they were aware of the whole extent of the mischief they were inflicting on the country. They were selfish and avaricious ; but avarice and selfishness are all's] short-sighted. Intent only on filling their own pockets, they looked not further. When they learn from the manufacturee3 that matters have now reached a point when capital must quit our shores for pro fitable employment else where, if means be not adopted of putting the English and foreign manufacturer on a level, they must be somewhat moved by such an irresistible ar gument. We cannot expect a capitalist to contiue to em bark money on a hazardous enterprise—to subject him self to constant struggles with combinations—while the foreign manufacturer is realising profits three or four times greater than his own ; and it is one of the alarming signs of the times that English ma nufacturers are carrying their capital and skill to other countries. We every day hear of manu facturers who have left or are preparing to leave England. The newspapers, too, from all parts of the empire are filled with these disheartening accounts. The Northern Whig, of Belfast, for instance, quotes from a recent number of Le Commerce, the arrangements in progress in Belgium for the establishment of linen yarn by machinery. Among the Societe: formed— " The first is at Ghent. It is called the Societe de la Lys,' for the spinning of flax, hemp, and tow. The capital amounts to five millions of francs. The superin tendent of the spinning will, prohably, be an Englishman. The management will be confined to five Directors and five Commissioners, almost all cotton-manufacturers of this city, " The large establishments, built by the' Societe de la Lys,' are fire-proof; all the machinery has been constructed after tie best English models, by the Plicenix Company. About next July ten thousand spindles will be at work ; and, progressively, the development of this magnificent en terprise will amount to twenty-five thousand spindles, driven by two steam-engines of 50-horse power each, made by the brothers Hak, ilartford. The extent of this establishment (eight hectares), and its advantageous situation, proclaim it at once the model manufactory of the country. " The second is also at Ghent, under the name of the ' Societe Linicre Gantoise,' for the spinning of flax and tow ; the capital is three millions of francs, and it is under the management of M. J. Voortman. The directory , is composed of three Directors and three Commissioners, cotton-spinners and capitalists. This society will set to work next April, in order that, towards the end of No vember; 1839, 10,000 spindles may be at work, producing the numbers twenty to eighty. The first machines were brought from England, the remainder have been constructed at Ghent. " The third, the Societe Leonard,' is formed at Liege, under the patronage of the Belgian Bank. The capital is two millions of francs. The management is composed of three Directors and five Commissioners. Mr. John Coke xill is one of the administration, and he is entrusted with the construction of the machinery, after the models which he now has at Seraing. The extent of this manufacture may be calculated at 10,000 spindles, driven by a steam engine of eighty-horse power, made at the foundry of Seraing. Some frames are already at work, but it is not thought that this establishment will be definitely organized before next June. " The seat of the fourth society, for the spinning of flax, is not yet known. The prinCipal director is M. Sauvage, formerly Governor of the province of Liege, and the capital is about two millions. " The fifth society has a capital of about two millions of francs, and will -be situated in the environs of Brussels. This society had resolved, at first, to construct its own machinery in its own workshops, but it has given up this in tention ; and Messrs. Fairbairn, the celebrated machine makers, of Leeds, who are now actually forming an estab lishment at Malines, have been emplo ed tos 't There are also two additional flax and tow Y pinni t i e p e y ch i er . manu factories in Belgium*, one situated near Waterloo, s .dl at Tourney, presenting a tot a l of 1 have also erected a stearn-en_gine of thirty - horse y O . hseprisne power. hey e Such is the state of Belgium with regard to linen manufactures, and we have every reason to hope that, at no distant period, we shall be able to compete successfully with the English market." The Northern Whig, after copying this notic e observes: " We are in the habit of flattering ourselves,i these ntese in countries, that we stand above all fear of competition many branches of manufactures, and in reference to none, we believe, was more security felt than in that which is referred to in the above article. We have capital, skill, industry, and experience beyond what any of the continental however, to have o ver l ooked states can boast of. We seem, the material consideration that we have been labouring w i th might and main to force competition. We refuse to take the products of other countries upon reasonable terms, and we madly imagine that they must continue to purchase con tentedly from us. Nothing more absurd, nothing more im politic, could be dreamt of. Manufactures are bound to no soil. They are the children of freedom : they flourish most where they have free course, and where a healthy, because a free, competition is permitted. What is it to the manu facturer whether he sets his mighty and untiring drudge, the steam engine, to toil and pant in the islands or on the continent ? Wherever he can get the raw material and labour cheapest, and a free at ready market for his products, there is his home. Where the Corn-law Lord intrudes to shake the sceptre of starvation over the working classes, and where protections and prohibitions—vile emana . tions of selfish minds—press, upon the natural tendencies of enterprise and ingenuity , there are manufactures in an ungenial soil. We have had, in England, more real freedom, political and otherwise, than in almost any other country ; and, for that reason, our merchants and manufacturers are pre-edfinent. But it would seem as if our rulers had re solved to change all this; and the article which we have just quoted may satisfy them that their labours are produc ing their natural consequences, since peoplehave been found wise enough to follow their own interests. We see that English machinery, and English mechanics and artisans are ready to do the work of our rivals. We rejoice that such is the case. If we shut our eyes to our own interests it is our earnest prayer, that trade, one of the mighty humanizers of mankind, as well as a proud and honoured nurse of Fberty, may rear her temple in every land where she may find fitting votaries." We cannot so readily as our Belfast Contemporary re concile ourselves to any results injurous to our country. This is our home—the land in which we first drew breath —with which all our fondest associations are connected ; and as we rejoice in its greatness and prosperity, its humi liation and its decay, would to us be a source of grief and pain. This is our Sparta. But to preserve England great and glorious —to cause her to be respected as she has hitherto been—we must rescue her from the danger which now threatens her industry. "We have," as the Belfast Journalist truly observes, " been labouriug with might and main to force competition." Let us retrace our steps be fore it be too late.—Morning Chronicle. We stated, yesterday, that the Manchester Chamber of Commerce had demanded a total and unqualified repeal of the existing Corn-laws—nay, had proceeded so far as to al. lege, that the existence of our foreign trade depends, note, on depriving agricultural industry of protection in every shape. The speculators engaged in certain branches of our foreign trade have, in other words, proclaimed war to the knife against the farmers and landowners of Great Britain; —and are coolly preparing to require at the hands of the Legislature, that English agriculture may be proscribed— and that all the trades an useful arts which depend on native agriculture may be condemned to extinction--in order that a class of men, whose profits depend on success in underselling foreign manufacturers in foreign markets, may be enabled to conducttheir operations on terms satisfactory to themselves. As an inducement to the Legislature to yield to these modest demands, the more forward of the Anti-Corn law agitators are never weary of proclaiming that their ma nufacture is not indigenous to Britain—and to this pleasing intimation, they are in the habit of adding a threat to the effect, that if their claims be not conceded, they will with draw themselves and their manufacture to other countries. On these statements, we would merely observe, that if the cotton manufacture of England be (as its cultivators pro claim), the result of accidental and fluctuating superiority in the command of certain mechanical appliances, no folly can be imagined more intense than that which should sacrifice to a branch of trade so precarious in its character, the pro sperity of all those industrial pursuits which are insepara bly connected with the skilful cultivation of the soil of England, and in which, so long as our rulers retain the slightest portion of wisdom, we have nothing to fear from the influence of accident, or of that spirit of competition, which seems now to affright from their propriety all the speculators engaged most deeply in our foreign trade. As to the threat, so freely employed by these gentlemen, that they are prepared, in the event of their demands being re fused, to withdraw their capital to other countries—that threat, we should observe, supplies a very strong reason, why their preposterous pretensisns should be resisted to the uttermost. The duty of every wise Legislature is to pro vide for the well-being of the mass of the people, whose well-being is inseparable from the well-being of the country, and the prosperity of its abiding institutions. A Legisla ture which should, on the contrary, pander to the avarice, or to the caprice of a body of speculators, who boast that " the whole world is their country"—and the duration of whose connection with the land of their birth is avowedly, a question of per tentage :—a Legislature, we repeat, which should sacrifice the agriculture and native industry of England to such a body of men would incur all the guilt which may attach to the foulest possible dereliction of duty. The members of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, proclaim, that they are no longer able to com pete, in certain departments of productive industry with foreigners. The fact may be so ; but does it fairly or honestly follow from the existence of any conceivable in ability on the part of our manufacturers for the foreign markets to undersell their rivals, that the agriculture of England ought to be sacrificed to foreign agriculture—and that the industrious classes of England in every depart ment ought to be crushed beneath that vast accession of power which a repeal of the corn laws would secure to the monied classes in this country ? Let it be recollected, that if our foreign trade is no longer so profitable as it has been, still our foreign trade, with all its contingent risks, was voluntarily chosen by the speculators engaged in it, as the field of their operations ! The agriculturists did not compel these speculators to embark their capital in foreign trade ; why then should these speculators be sanctioned in their grossly unjust attempt to throw upon the agricUltural classes the consequences of their ill-success in their own freely chosen sphere cf er.terprise? Some of the querulous ora tors in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce adverted to the large capitals at their disposal ! These capitals they have amassed in this branch of trade, which they state to be now no longer so productive as they could desire ; yet they have been content to keep possession of these capitals instead of handing them over to the farmers and land owners, whom they modestly desire to render responsible for the diminution of their profits. It seems, in other words, to be in accordance with the ethical system which finds favour in the eyes of the members of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, that speculators in foreign trade should pocket all the gains attendant on their pursuits—but that they should throw the risks and losses on farmers and landowners, and on the body of the industrious classes amongst their countrymen ! We shall, to-morrow, exhibit a few of the absurdities on the subject of the Corn-laws, which the Manchester orators contrived to muster in for mal array,---Morniny Herald. It was annnounced by the Government press on Monday, that what the Manchester people had to do with respect to the repeal of the Corn-laws, was to " raise a wind capable of moving the Cabinet." Taking into account, firstly, the reputation of Lancashire for witches ; and, secondly the reputation of witches for raising a wind, we own that we held this to be a more appropriate and logical observation than we generally meet with in the Government papers. But it would seem from the strenuous efforts which certain Journalists have been making . since Monday—Journalists who certainly are not either witches or conjurors—that they have changed their opinion ; that they think the ne cessary breeze may be raised in London ; and that they are the very persons to raise it. In this opinion we see no grounds, traditional, trigonometrical, or otherwise, to concur, We must not omit, however, to con gratulate Lord Melbourne upon the high position which he appears to hold in the respect and estimation of these Journalists who support his Government, and that view of the Corn-laws which he does not support. s'All we ha ve to do," say they, " is to compel him. yield more readily than the Minister. The then n o b o dy st ill The philosophy of the Chronicle is peculiarly captivating on this head : " Ministers are so much bound up with the Aristocracy that it would be [sadness to expect from them any cffiwt which they are not compelled to make. Lord Melbourne fairly told the people that it depended onlthemselves whether there should be a change in the Corn-laws. But it required neither Lord Melbourne, nor a ghost, to tell us this. It is obvious that Ministers can only carry a repeal of the Corm laws by the people demonstrating to the landowners that ii must be carried." The idea of Ministers making an ejbrt to do that which it seems they must be compelled to do, and of carrying that which it seems must be forced upon them, whether they will or not, is abundantly illustrative of the kind of Cockney witchery—by no means equal to the Lancashire--through which the " wind" is to be " raised," that is to " move the Cabinet." As to the view of the policy of the Corn-laws entertained by the Prime Minister himself, that does not appear to be worth a moment's consideration on the part of his Journalists. So far as these laws are concerned, he is to be held as occupying the same position with ra? Bard to the manufacturers, as the drawer in a tap-room does to the company therein assemhied, " What's your will, gentlemen ?" is the only question which he is al lowed to entertain upon the subject. Although First Minister of the Crown, he is not to direct his policy ac cording to what seems to himself best for the nation, but according to that which the manufacturers think most for their interest ! What an enviable and honourable position for a First Minister of the Crown' How much must Lord Melbourne feel himself obliged to his Journalists for exhibit ing him in this position before Europe ! But it is not even the whole of the manufacturers whose " ordef•z" in the political line Lord Viscount Melbourne is to " exe cute." Some manufacturers, and extensive ones too (see the speech of Mr. Bailey the other day at Sudbury), do not wish any alteration to be made in the so that, in effect, it is not the manufacturing body, but the Journals in the interest of a certain portion of the manufacturers, at whose bidding Lord Melbourne is to feel himself compelled to act, Sad and ludicrous as the case may be, it does seem to come to this, that his Lordship is to be driven by his own hacks, who,,. w ith respect to the C o rn-l a w qu es ti on , have taken a job iron), some greedy, and we doubt not needy, professors of the art and mystery of transmuting American cotton into Briti s h calico. The Journalists o the Government have been so long dabbling in free trade, that they must needs have a practical touch at the " reciprocity system," and as they are Lord Melbourne's hacks upon the grand question of the superior fitness of the Whigs for holding place and receiving salary, so h e must be the i r hack upon the subject of the repeal o f t h e C orn- l aws. A n d wind this is " raising the to move the Cabinet." Oh! Lord Melbourne! does it not seem even to you, that it is a wiogt foul wind 1 --Morning Post. Wedn es d ay wee k one of a O nd n ßoth er h am ra i lway E x. T t hReA engineso lit D N o A n i t Y h eSsPhEeEffiDe performed the distance in five minutes and a quarter. We regret to hear that Sir David Baird has been seriously injured by a fall in hunting. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1838. abstain from acts involving a breach of the law ; and so long as they did that I perfectly agreed with what my Noble Friend at the head of the department in the Go vernment to which I belong said at Liverpool, that it was less dangerous for the State t 6 permit such opinions as those to be publicly known, that men might publicly re pudiate them—(Cheers)---than by directing the force of the law against individuals who were scarcely worthy of notice, and by giving them the character of political martyrs—(Cheers)—raise them in the eyes of their ignorant followers.—( Cheers.) So long as they pursued that course—so long as their language was moderate, and their actions free from violence, the Government allowed them to go unmolested—(Cheers)—but they had pro ceeded now to such incendiary language, and that lan guage and these doctrines having been realised at Ashton on-the-Line, by the burning of a factory, that it was im possible longer to be tame spectators of the revolutionary orations of Stephens and his followers.—(Great. cheering.) Well, what is the effect of this burning ? The proprietor, no doubt, will lose some thousand pounds : but this loss will be probably covered by insurauce on the buildings. Who, then, are the real sufferers ? The four hundred families who are thrust upon the world to starve.—(Cheers and cries of " Hear.") The first act of this revolutionary party falls not on the order of society whom they would assail, but the blow is levelled against, and acts with too sad an effect on the poor who are unable to stand it. The subject in which I am interested above all others—in which my vanity is not a little interested—is the ameliora tion of the system of prison discipline throughout Scotland. I have seen much with my own eyes, and I have heard much from those in whom I place implicit; reliance, of the shocking state—for I can use no milder expression —in which the gaols of Scotland still are ; and there is no in dividual acquainted with the subject who will deny that it is most unjust to compel the royal burghs to maintain all prisoners after punishment.—(Applause.) I have done all in my power to get the grievance removed, and I am happy to think that, though the measure has not yet been suc cessful in both houses of the Legislature, still I have got one-half of my object accomplished, in having got the House of Commons to agree to a particular Bill—(Cheers) —and though I am aware, from what I read of the pro ceedings of the town- cotracil of Perth, that some indi vidals there were averse to the principle of the measure. who have been removed from their places by the votes of the citizens—(Cheers)—I can plainly see that they were neither disposed to give the Bill fair play, nor fairly to con sider its clauses—perh a p s b ecause it came f rom a Reform Government—(Cheers)—or because it had my name on the back of it.--(Laughter and cheers.) I am bound publicly to assure the Provost, Magistrates, and citizens of Perth that I will do all that in my power lies to attend to their wishes in regard to the Prison Bill. W e see a ll things are going by agitation now-.t-days.—(Laughter.) We sometimes see temporal O'Connells, sometimes spiritual O'Connells, and now, gentlemen, let me be a prison O'Connell.—{Great laughter.) With regard to other topics of general political interest, I will only say, at present, that, as far as I can consistently with the maintenance of those institutions which I think useful to the country pursue the course of Reform—l will be found the same reformer as formerly—more especially in as far as I am disposed to give the Reform Bill a fair working.—(Great cheering.) Gen tlemen, I have the honour of proposing to you the health of the " friends of Reform in the county, and the consti tuency who have always given their free and independent suffrages in its favoUr." (The Hon. Gentleman concluded amidst enthusiastic and long-continued applause.) Mr. RITCHIE, of Hill of Rutliven, acknowledged the compliment, and gave " The Marquis of Breadalbane—the first who so nobly fought the battle of Reform successfully in Perthshire."—(Lon g and continued cheering.) The Marquis of BREA DALBANE could assure the Chair man and gentlemen assembled, that, on no occasion, had he ever required more indulgence than on the present. The enthusiastic manner in which his health had been responded to, almost destroyed his confidence in attempting to reply to it.—(Cheers.) He was convinced that, of all forms of government, that adopted in Britain, the mixed one, was the best—combining, as it did, a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a democracy ; or, in other words, a representation of the people.—( Loud cheering.) It was on these principles he had sought the suffrages of the electors of the county ; and he would ever look back with pleasure on the support then given to him, and he would endeavour to strengthen, cherish, and improve the ties that existed between them. The Noble Marquis concluded by giving " her Majesty's Ministers," which was received with great applause. Mr. Fox MAULE returned thanks ; and, after a few ge neral observations, said the Ministry were acting, to the best of their ability, to carry forward the great work of reform legislation ; and, be their fate what, it might, although they should resign the reins of government, they could, at least, do it with honour to themselves ; and he was quite sure to say that, since 1830, no administration had hitherto, during three times the space, done the same ; and he might, with equal confidence, predict that no Ministry in future would, in the same space, do the like.—(Great and enthu siastic cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then gave the following toasts : " The Lord-Lieutenant of the County" (all the honours) —" The Member for the County" (all the honours)— ,LaosdnLlye ns l 't The M em b er f or th e Ci ty. "—(G reat cheering.) Lord KIIVNAIRD returned thank s f or th e h onour conferred upon his b rot h er. Mr. ro Neesdi distinguishedot e s h e , w o a f s D o u t n fosbi only n yh n i e sa , p r a o t s r e i o t t ios distinguishedm, fdo propose rwioi sr a i loortv—oca warrior—he t ,o v f . tw liberty a so the sure and health t Ia t his ot the et he attachment company Venerable adn dedicate Reform odGoa al tprinciplesa(nGdr bumpere l a ) a t cheering.) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then rose, and was received with great cheering. He said—Mr. Chairman, I feel as sured no toast proposed even by a stranger can be other wise than well received here, of which th e su bj ec t i s Ire land.—(Loud c h eer i ng .) Gentlemen, it is a lamentable task for English, or rather British eyes, to read the history of Ireland. The earlier peri ad of that history extends over centuri es p resent i ng nothing but a pi c tu re , f rom which t h e attention turns tired and disgusted, o f massacre and pillage--domestic dissensions—civil wars never sub dued, and sometimes extending their ravages over the whole country—with everything else that is utterly de structive and subversive of security to property or to life. —(llear, hear.) The revolution, which secured to us civil and religious liberty—that glorious revolution con ferred no such adeantages on Ireland.—( Hear.) The hatred entirely produced, and I dread at that time not unnaturally, from the progress and effect of Catholicism, gave rise to two consequences which have since marked the progress of her story. One of these was the enactment of a series of penal acts, and the most oppressive —at least as oppressive as any which ever stained the statute-book of any country.—(Hear, hear.) The other was, that in order to secure the great and favourite object of Protestant as. cendancy, but securing it by no well-considered policy, the foondations were laid of a Protestant legislature, of which there have been many honourable exceptions, but a section of which, in the end of the last century, (and perhaps at this time would do so if they could), proved themselves one of the most remorseless and bloodthirsty factions that ever oppressed the land—( Loud cheers). It was not until 1829 that the Catholic Bill was wrested from the Tories— (Hear, hear). It was given so grudgingly—with so little heart in the matter to make it a boon of grace to that country—that you may perfectly recollect, that although there was but a single case that a regulation could touch, they did so form their measure that they prevented Mr. O'Connell from obtaining his seat in Parliament, though returned for the county of Clare, because his return was before the Bill was passed—(Great cheers). Was not this a paltry and pitiful outrage oa a man whom, whatever you may think of some parts of his conduct both before and since, has undoubtedly proved himself, as regards his own countrymen, one of the greatest benefactors that Ireland has ever found—(Loud continued cheering). But has the Catholic Emancipation Bill not been shown to bear its fruits. It fell not indeed, fortunately, f or a Tory administration either to give or deny those fruits, for shortly after that the general Reform Bill was passed, and it was in vain to deny to Ireland the reform of her consti tuency which was yielded to the demands of Great Britain both in England and Scotland. We know Seotland got a Municipal Reform Bill, before they got theirs in England ; and those institutions deserved to be respected, not on ac count of their exclusive privileges of trade, which should all be abolished ; but they deserved to be respected, because in former periods they preserved the seeds of liberty until it grew against oppression, and -at last assumed a shape--in short, until it protected the whole land.--(Great cheering.) They have been called for and refused in Ireland, as nor foal schools of agitation ; but I say schools of good disci pline,of teaching men the way to manage their own concerns, and in politics teaching them how to govern themselves.— (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, another subject there is, ea th t e dl l ff r e is r h en C ce hu o r r c h o w n hic opinion prevails among you her . lt is, as proposed by the —not touching the question o i,in g the Ministry, looking to the eater° of as those elsewhere, 511( 1 to vy e:11111csIht know v a eo r t that establishment, _ liet wee eesiuleed of her, might possibly be too well endowed, (Hear.) lam not striking Church that property which necesaary to enable her to diseharge her t leties even to the order of a hierarchy ; all that was proposed was, that so at endowments me of the superfluities of that establishment—some of' the exces s over what can be nooeS sarily.required--Sgrne bread of th ose hi g hly pampered and groaleng tables should perhaps fell to the moral and reli gious instruction of the whole people.—( Hoar, hear, bear, and loud cheers.) And this was called spoliation ! What, Gentlemen, are we Protestants afraid of education ? What has the reform of religion given us so dear as civil and re ligious lib er ty? We baye hea r d it said duo Ireland is but half conquered. I scarcely know in what sense the word is used. Half conquered Ireland ! If it is intended to convey this meaning, that all that is required to pacify Ire land, to repress agitation there, is to unite her to Great Britain by military power, by great oppression and by a great deluge of blood, it is a maxim, and I say a most un worthy one, and which in that sense cannot be wed by the great man to whom it is ascribed, however ready the Orange party in that sense may be to adopt it.—( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I say half conquered Ireland and her conquest will only be complete when her interests and affections are identified with yours.—(Great cheering.) The meeting was afterwards addressed by Provost Greig, Captain Arnston Stewart, Colonel Abercrombie, Lord Kin naird, Sir David Brewster, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, and several other gentlemen. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 24. A Letter has been received at this Office, addressed by Captain Sandom, commanding her Majesty's Naval Force on the Lakes of Canada, to Vice-Admiral the Honourable Sir Charles Paget, and dated at Kingston, the 18th of November last, in which the Captain reports the proceedings of the vessels employed in concert with the Land Forces under Cols. Dun das and Young, in repelling the attack made upon the town of Pres cott, and on the British territory in its vicinity ; as detailed in the lettersfrom the two military officers above-named, which appeared in the " Gazette" of the Bth instant. Captain Sandom commends, in high terms, the gallantry, zeal, and activity of Lieutenant Powell and Mr. David Elliot, Mate of her Majesty's steam-vessel Experiment, and of Lieutenant C. A. Par ker, of the Royal Marines, commanding the detachment landed to co-operate with the Queen's troops; as well as the good con duct of the seamen and marines employed on the occasion. The following is a list of the officers and men killed and wounded in the action of the 13th November : Return of Killed and Wounded, on the 13th November, IE3B. KILLED. Robert Kershaw, private Royal Marines. WOUNDED. Lieut. C. A. Parker, First Lieut. Royal Marines, slightly. Mr. David Elliot, mate, slightly. Samuel Wade, seaman, severely. John M‘Dermott, seaman, severely. John Chapman, lance corporal Royal Marines, severely. Josh. Humm, lance corporal Royal Marines, severely. George Clackett, private Royal Marines, severely. Richard Wakeham, private Royal Marines, severely. William Ward, private Royal Marines, severely. John Stephens, private Royal Marines, severely. Richard Parry, private Royal Marines, severely. John Powell, private Royal Marines, severely. . William Miller, private Royal Marines, severely. ' Thomas Burton, private Royal Marines, slightly. Richard Dibben, private Royal Marines, slightly. ( Signed) WILLIAM SANDOM, Captain. EDWARD NEWMAN, M.D. Acting Surgeon. - KENSINGTON PALACE, DEC. 21, 1838. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has been pleased to ap point the Reverend Doctor Bowles, Rector of Noke, in the county and diocese of Oxford, to be one of his Royal Highness's Domestic Chaplains. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 25. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieut. H. Brand to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Chisholm, who retires; A. Woodford, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Brand . ; Lieut. and Capt. Lord F. Paulet to be Adjutant, vice Chisholm, who resigns, Dec. 25. 3d Regiment of Foot—Ensign 0. H. St. G. Anson, to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice White, promoted; A. H. Robson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Anson, Dec. 25. 6th Foot—Ensign R. S. Cole to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice White, promoted ; J. R. Croker, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Cole, Dec. 25. 17th Foot--Lieut. G. E. Darby, from the 45th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieut., vice Stowell, who exchanges, Dec. 26. 32d Foot—Captain 0. Markham, from the 34th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice Bradfute, who exchanges, Dec. 25. 34th Foot--Captain R. Bradfute, from the 32d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vise Markham, who exchanges, Dec. 25. 45th Foot—Ensign R. Bates to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Killikelly, who retires, Dec. 25 ; Lieutenant J. Stawell, from the 17th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Darby, who ex changes, Dec. 26 ; H. T. Vialls, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bates, Dec. 25. 50th Foot—Ensign J. W. Hope, from the 99th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice Rathborne, who exchanges, Dec. 25. 57th Foot—D. E. Armstrong, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cardew, promoted, Dec. 25. 60th Foot—Second Lieut. S. G. Bunbury to be First Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Rose, who retires ; C. W. H. Sotheby, Gent., to ba Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bunbury, De cember 25. 95th Foot—Lieut. J. Campbell, from the 46th Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice W. C. Fisher, who retires, Dec. 25. 99th Foot--Ensign W. H. Rathborne. from the 50th Regiment of Foot, to he Ensign, vice Hope, who exchanges, Dec. 25. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign F. M. W. Pogson to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Beecher, deceased, Oct. 27 ; C. B. Birch, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Pogson, Dec. 25. Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies—Lieut. W. Mason, from the half-pay of the 82d Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Macpherson, appointed Pdymaster of the 77th Foot; Lieut. 11. Munro, from the half-pay of the 103 d Regiment, to be Lieute nant, vice Rice, promoted, Dec. 25. UNATTACInD.—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. H. Macquarie. from the 55th Regiment of Foot ; Lieut. S. Rice, from the Royal Newfoundland Veteran Companies; Lieut. E. Suther land, from the 77th Regiment of Foot, dated Dec. 25. BREVET.—The under-mentioned Cadets, of the Hon. the East India Company's Service, to have the temporary rank of Ensign dur ing the period of their being employed, under the command of Col. Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for field instructions in the art of Sapping and :Vining :—Gentleman Cadet H. Yule ; Gen tleman Cadet A. J. M. Boileau, Dec. 25. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 24. Royal Regiment of Artillery.— Second Captain G. Spiller to be Captain, vice Robertson, placed on the Retired List, ; First Lieutenant H. Poole to be Second Captain, vice Spiller; Second Lieutenant the Hon. G. T. Devereux to be First Lieutenant, vice Poole. Commission 'it e Lord Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire. Dumfriesshire, &c.;. , • itia.—Lieutenant J. Rutherford, half-pay 23d Regiment, to be 1- in, vice Sir P. /E. I rving , Bart., de • ceased, Dec. 17. Commission by the Lieutenant of Somersetshire. North Somerset Regimen( of : Yeomanry Cavalry—G. C. Sawyer, Gent.'to be Cornet, vice Giay, promoted, Dec. 19. WHITEHALL, Dec. 20. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Bonsor Swan, of the city of Gloucester, Gent., to be a Mister Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM BARTLEY, money scrivener, Liverpool. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JAMES BOWERMAN, shopkeeper, Castle Cary, Somerset shire. BANKRUPTS. DAVID DAVIES and RICHARD FERDINAND COX, coal owners, Oxford, to surrender Jan. 15, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, Finsbury-square, official assignee ; Richards and Motteram, Birmingham ; Chaplin, Gray's Inn-square, London. THOMAS WHARTON, house carpenter, Lancaster, Jan. 4, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn, Lancaster. Loftus and Young, New Inn, London ; Wilson, Kendal ; Baldwin, Lan caster. WILLIAM THOMAS DOORNE, bookseller, Torquay, De vonshire, Jan. 12, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the New London Inn, Exeter. Cloves and Wedlake, King's Bench- walk, Temple, London ; Laidman, Exeter. JOHN NUTTER and ROBERT NUTTER, corn-merchants, Cambridge, Jan. 10, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Cambridge. Egan, Waterman, and Wright, Essex-street, Strand, London ; Adcock, Cambridge. GEORGE ELD, miller, Coventry, Jan. 10, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the King's Head Inn, Coventry. Austen and Hobson, Gray's Inn, London; Troughton and Lea, Coventry. DIVIDENDS. - At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street. T. Rankin, draper, Epping, Essex, Jan. 15, at twelve—J. An derson, merchant, Winchester House, Old Broad-street, Jan. 15, at half-past eleven—C. Basan, licensed victualler, Strand, Jan. 15, at one—B. Verrindcr, coal merchant, Davies-street, Berkeley square Jan. 17, at half-p as t e l even —G . P almer, tailor, Seuthamp ton, Berkeley square, 17, at twelve—B. Sewell and W. Garrod, drapers, Hackney, Jan. 17, at half-past twelve—H. Grace, painter, Re gent-street, Jan. 17, at one—W. P. Williams, draper, Newton Abbott, Devonshire, Jan. 17, at half-past one—C. Bailey and W. H. Potter, wholesale druggists, Garlick-hill, City, Jan. 15, at eleven. In the Country. W. Atwood, watch maker, Lewes, Sussex, Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Lewes—J. Llewellyn, draper, Carmarthen, Feb. 14, at ten, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen—S. Hugo, maltster, Truro, Jan. 18, at eleven, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro—J. Harries, timber merchant, Carmarthen, April 4, at ten, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen—D. Davies, victualler, Manchester, Jan, 16, at ten, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES.—JAN. 15, G. Martin, builder, Oxford-street—J. Saul, schoolmaster, Green row, Cumberland—M. (lroucott, dealer in glass, Leamington priors, Warwickshire. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. U. Coflyer and T. R, Sabine, window blind manufacturers, Brighton—J. Taylor, sen., and J. T ay l or, j un., tailors, King-street, Southwark—W. Borradaile and J. ;Middleton, King's Arms-yard, Thames Coleman F oun-streetJ. M, Herv e y an d G. 11. Burnell, i ron f ounders, dry, Brick-lan e , S t . Luke's—J. R. and T. Newbery, table cover manufacturers, Percy-street, Bedford-square --C. Bos worth and R. Norton, brick makers, Upton, Nottinghamshire—J. T. and R. B. Coles, paper makers, Wells, Sornersetshire—T. B. Jervis and R. B agu l cy , manufacturers of striped cottons, .Manches ter---A. Batt') and W. Muller, tailors, Sackville-street, Piccadilly, —J. Holt and W. Benson, iron founders, Liverpool. - -- UNIVERSITY •OF DURHAM.—A, Professorship, which promises to realise the most important results as re gards the advancement of science, i s a b out to b e esta b l i shed in this University—viz., a Professorship of Mining, an on dowment which has long been a desideratum in this country i and from the 'peculiarly favourable position of the heart of the great mining districts of England—ti: students will, at all times, have the advan tage of * winging their theoretical instruction to the test of actual experiment. HIGIIWAY ROBBERY.—SIIANIEFuL TREAT MUNI' or THE PRISONER.--Thomas Baker, a marine, of the Woolwich division has been fully committed by the Woolwich bench of M ag i strates f or ro bb er y and attempting to murder J o hn S e lby W atson, E sq . The prisoner com plained that he w a s a l mos t d y i ng f or want since his incar ceration ; that alth oug h s i xpence a -d a y was a.ilowed f or hi s support out of hi s pay , h e on l y receiveda thin half slice of bread and butter, and a basin of coffee and water pe r d ay , and that this had been his on!y sustenance for a fortnight. It was stated that the Magistrates would cause an immecnts PUBLIC DINNER AND TESTIMO NIAL TO THE HON. FOX MAULE, M.P., -&c. (From the Second Edition of the Perthshire Advertiser.) The public dinner, to which the Liberal Electors and in habitants of this county some time since invited the Hon. Fox Maule, for the purpose of presenting him with a testi monial of their gratitude for his patriotic exertions in the cause of Reform generally, and particularly for his efforts iri promoting the triumph of Liberal principles in this counrry, took place on Wednesday in the County Hail, Perth. Up wards of 500 were present. The testimonial consists of a magnificent candelabrum, executed in the first style of art, and which cost nearly 400 guineas. From some unforeseen occurrence, the testimonial, though despatched from Lon don, did not arrive in time to be presented, but the Com mittee meet to-day to make arrangements for this purpose. Shortly after four o'clock the Chairman, George Stewart, Esq., Grandtully, accompanied by Mr. Maule and other distinguished individuals, entered the hall, and were received with the most deafenin g plaudits. The Marquis of Breadal bane was repe a tedly cheered. The Chairman was sup ported on the right by the distinguished and honoured guest, Mr. Maule, Lord Kinnaird, the Solicitor-General of Scot land, Mr. Dunlop of Clober, Captain Speirs of Elderslie, Major Elliott of Braco Castle, William Dundas, Esq., of Ochtertyre ; and on the left by the Marquis of Breadal bane, the Hon. Colonel Abercromby, M.P. ; Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Bart. ; Sir David Brewster, the Rev. Mr. Honey of Inchture, Professor Gillespie of St. Andrews, &c. &c. The Croupiers were :—John Binny, Esq., of Forneth ; the Lord Provost of Perth, Captain Houston Stewart, of Tire Gart ; Captain Aytoun of Glendovan, J. M. Nairne, Esq., of Dunsinane, and Thomas Ritchie, Esq., of Hill of Ruthven ; around whom we observed a great number of the leading supporters of the Reform cause in the county. A blessing was asked by the Rev. Mr. Honey, and thanks were returned by the Rev. Mr. Brown. After the cloth was removed, and the usual toasts given, The CHAIRMAN rose and said—Gentlemen, It is now my duty to propose to you the toast of the evening—" The health of our honoured and distinguished guest, Mr. Fox Maule.—(Prodigious cheering, which lasted several mi nutes.) There have been four contests for the representa tion of this county since the Reform Bill passed, and every one of you can bear witness to the zeal, and the activity, and the efficient service he rendered to the cause of Re form.—(Protracted cheering.) There is one very remark able circumstance connected with the election of 1835, when Reform triumphed in the person of Mr. Maule. For the first time, I believe, in the history of this country, a Cabinet Minister was turned out of his offic6, by his being refused a seat in the Commons House of Parliament.— (Cheers.) For this we were certainly indebted to the exertions of Mr. Mimic ; and I believe there is no one here who will not warmly express his attachment to en in dividual who, while he enjoyed the best wishes of his friends, excited even the eetaem of those politically his ene mies. —(On the conclusion of Mr. Stewart's address, the meeting rose simultaneously, and continued cheering for several minutes.) Mr. Fox MAUI.E, who, on rising, was received with en thusiastic cheers, spoke as follows :—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, The present moment leads my mind naturally back to the many years now, not only of my political life, but of happy and social enjoyment, which I have spent amongst you, When I first came among you it was for the purpose of pitching my camp among what I believed to be your quiet and happy glens, but little I thought that the few short years which I spent there were to be the pre lude of a much busier, but, I trust, not less useful time spent in the service of my country.—(Great cheering.) When I first came the name of Reform had already been uttered in the south, and had been re-echoed from the north ; and during the first year of my residence amongst you that Bill, which gave rise and gave birth to the present constituency of the country, became the law. Through the tenantcy which I held I was entitled to vote, and I found myself for the first time exercising my franchise as an en franchised voter in this county, and for the first time I came forward to take a part in politics, principally from my de cided conviction that the time had come—nay, that it had been too long delayed, when rights should be conceded to the people, which they knew only by name, and not by pos session. But, above all, I was induced to come forward and take a part in the politics of this county, because I saw already springing up an unfair opposition on the part of our opponents.—( Hear, hear.) I had reason to see that my Noble Friend, who first stepped forward as a Liberal— (Great cheering for the Marquis of Breadalbane)—was doomed to receive not only a strenuous opposition—for if it had been merely strenuous it would have been quite fair —but that he was doomed to receive an opposition aided by every circumstance which could be brought to secure the end for which it originated.—(Loud and continued cheering, and cries of Hear hear.") I then thought it my duty to tender my services as one of his committee, and since that period, when he so triumphantly carried the county—(Hear, hear)—l have been embarked in your ser vice, and I will never desert it.—(Great cheering.) Gen tlemen, the consideration of this fact brings me down to the period of the last election in this county. It is true that, not withstanding all our exertions, we did not succeed in carry ing the victory as heretofore, but when I trace the causes to which our defeat is to be attributed, though I deeply regret the separation which exists among us still, since we did not condescend to employ the means our adversaries used, I cannot but look on our defeat as far better than their vic tory.—(Cheers.) When I reflect on the intimidation which was used, not only by landlords, but by every engine a land lord could set to work, and if that is doubted, I know that there are some in this room who were even turned from their farms because of their right of voting freely and inde pendently—they resorted to bribery ; and they resorted to the system of making fictitious votes, which the Reformers in this county have always despised, as unbecoming the principles and spirit of the Reform Act.--(Cheers.) To those machinations of our enemies you may trace the defe it which has taken place in this county ; and although by those unfair means the cause of Reform may be at this mo ment in abeyance, it is neither under a cloud nor extin guished. It has been the endeavour of our adversaries, the Tories, to foment differences between the Government and the Reformers of the country ; and upon that principle they leave certainly, in some instances, succeeded in alienating from the Government the affections of those who will see when it is too late that they arc deceived by men of the moment, who, when they have deceived them, and used them to accomplish their purposes, will not scruple to desert them. The Tories have accused the Government of many things, in which they hope to succeed in gettin g Reformers who are interested in maintaining the honour of their coun try to join them. They have told you tales of wars which the country is unprepared to meet—of treaties which the Government have neglected to enter into for the benefit of the country. But, fortunately, since Parliament has been prorogued, we have seen what truth there is in those ru mours—we have seen what reality there is in the neglect of treaties that ought to have been entered into. They have tald you that tire Government have neglected the great national arm of the country, arid that it was now in a condition unfit to repel a foreign foe—nay, that it was unfit even for the purpose of protecting our own argosies on those seas where England has hitherto ruled the unrivalled mistress. The Tories, when they disseminate a story of this kind should look back to their own acts to see what they themselves did when they were in power. Now, I only beg to refer you to the close of Sir Robert Peel's short administration, when, I presume to get some applause for an appearance of economy, that administration was the first to strike a blow at the efficiency of our navy—to which navy Lord Melbourne's government since that day have added 5,000 men, in direct opposition to a vote proposed by our econ omical friend, Mr. H ume . —(C r i es o f " H ear .") S o much then for the invention of the Tories, that the Go vernmeet neglected to attend to the efficiency of the navy. Now with regard to the neglect of treaties to which I have just alluded, in what respect have the Government been neglectful ? I need only refer you to what has become matter of public history—a treaty entered into with Turkey, a reciprocal treaty for the advancement of commerce, and to another with Austria for the same purpose. These trea ties must bind us in a firmer commercial connection with Europe than this country was ever bound before, and their advantages moat he apparent to a ll who have an interest in the extension of our cprom erce. True it i s th a t re f orm ho.s not marched onward with that progressive step which some would have wished ; and who are to blame for that ? Is it owing to the Government, supported by a small ma jerity of twenty or thirty, and having to oppose, daily, a factious opposition to all reform on the part of the Tories f or is it a section of the country, who never liked the ethe to name or act of reform, have done a ll the y could to defeat the progress of reform? The Tories were not slow i n turn ing this state of the public mind to their purposes ; and they availed themselves of the deep - seat e d feelings of some g w o ho sti e l a l ll f e a d rth th e e r n . ise A ly l e t s ho l u t z el h or i m t m er a s y , andnot w haveo l y m e were affected ct willinged in terests of this part of the cow - 10y, you are all aware that an opposition has been got up against the Government, on the hostility that exists in England against the Act passed by the Whigs for the amendment of the Poor-laws.— ( Hear, hear.) Against that Act is arrayed a class of men with whose doctrines I would he sorry to be associated._ ( Loud and poptinued cheers.) These men were itete a n y aided and assisted by- the Tories at the last general election; and the Tories availed them:4ves of the opposition to the NOV Poor-law Act to secure the realm Pf Members to th e ,110i4se of Cemmons of their own opinions.—(Beer, hear) I trust, there is /1 i; L'Pe person, from the south to the north of Scotland, who will diew the slightest concurrence in the wild and revolutionary doctrines of rhp Phartists.—(Great cheering.) I was in hopes that, whilst th li oe men were allowed to meet and to discuss their opinions in pelilip without interruption, the, would haVe been content to CHURCH-RATES. At the Swan Tavern, Deptford, Friday, Dec. 183 S, before the following Magistrates :—Thomas Shipman, Esq., Chairman, and Messrs. Edmunds, Gordon, and Stainsfield. Mr. Arthur Wade and several other inhabitants of Deptford attended upon summonses which had been served upon them to show cause why distress warrants should not issue to enforce payment of a Church-rate made last February. Mr.A R Ncmu, the barrister, attended for Mr. Arthur W ,de and some other of the respectable inhabitants of Deptford, who objected to the legality of the rate. Mr. Wade's case was first called on. Mr. Whitten, the collector of Church-rates, produced the rate-book, and pointed out the assessment upon Mr. Wade. Cross-examined` by Mr. ARNOLD—It appeared that many of the parties rated had not been assessed to this Church-rate. The word " poor" having been written against their names at the time of making the as sessment—it also appeared that many of the houses were rated at about half their value—they were so rated because the landlord " farmed" them, i. e., he compounded by pay ing a smaller sum than their value, which he paid whether they were occupied or not. This was an old custom in the parish, but there was no local Act empowering the farming or compounding of the rates. He could not say under whit authority the rates had been so farmed. The names of several other rate-payers, who had been summoned werecalled, and, upon their intimating that Mr- Arnold, in st a ti ng th e groun d s of opposition in Mr. Wade ' s case, had spoken their sentiments, the summonses against them were alai; dismissed. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE._MTJ DEC. 17.—The report of the projected marriage be tween Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte and the Russian Princess Olga gains credit every day in the salons of the high Aristocracy of our town. Certain persons who ap pear to be well informed say, that the Emperor Nicholas would have charged- one of his diplomatic agents to see and consult on that subject en inffuential member of the Beauharnois family, and to know from him what would probably be the opinion. of Prince Napoleon, in case such a proposition were made to him. However extraordinary this project of the Emperor may at first appear, it acquires a certain consistency when we recollect the particular and special affection borne by the Emperor Alexander towards the Prince Eugene (Beauharnois) an affection which the. present Czar bears towards his son, Prince Maximilian de Leuchtenberg, cousin-german of Prince Louis Napoleons Bonaparte. In the event of such an alliance being Dv' cepted by the son of the ex-King of Holland, it will ci,n tribute not a little towards modifying the political ten dencies of the French Cabinet towards the Russian Court, and will be of a nature to produce important changes ia European policy. These are, however, but on (Ms, al' though they spring from a very high source, so as to bring with them a certain degree of authenticity. VICTORIA PATTERN PATTERN PIA—ATE'7r, A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 14, cornhr; London, (opposite the Bank of England,) inform fiv e public than in addition to their many patterns of plain and shcil sil ver Spoci l and Forks, they have finished this very elegant r.en pattern, after the admired style of Louis XIV. The follow'swr are the Wu al weights : oz. s. d. 4 ' L ( ' dozen Victoria Pattern Silver Table Siwions ...... 4O at 7 6 ..... 13 0 0 dozen ditto . 9 7 dozen ditto La e b se le rt F s o p r oo ks rs t. 05 77 : .. ......... 15 , 0 : dozen ditto Desert Fort ' 25 25 7 6...... 9 ' pair ditto Gravy Spear s ditto Soup La, 4 ditto Sauce ~ adie s l2 8 0...... a c 4 ditto Salt JAttdles (gilt bowls) 2 . c 3 10 • I ditto 1 13 1 7 7 6 6 4 : i li g • Fisi.A Slice (pierced and strong).— i , ) C . T',:a spoons dozen ditto 14 8 0...... 5 1 s E pair ditto .- ..,ugar Tongs Fiddle pattern Silver Spo'.ins and Forks 7s. 2d per ounce. King's pattern Silver 5,,,00ns and Forks 7s. 4d. ditto. A Pamphlet of the pri..:es of plate may be had on application._ 1 ____ SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS, WIT, 3 „„ STRONG SILVER EDGES, may be selected of Tar'' ° Patterns, price 161. the Set, or Sets of the same Pattern in- the Argentine Metal, quite equal to plated in appearance, price Se/ ell and a Half G u i neas t h e set, at F. COX SAVORY'S, Workin., Goldsmith, Sil versm i t h , and Watchmaker, 47, Cernhill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). The Set consists of one cover 20, 18, 14, and 12 inches in diameter. N.B.—The three Show Rooms contain a large variety Silver-edged Plat e d G oo d s. A Pamphlet of Prices of Sil l / .! 11 Spoons and Fork s , an d D raw i ngs of Silver Plato, Plated Go , p Watches, Clock s , & c., may be had gratis, or will be fors., ard( A 1 ° answer to a post-paid app li cat i on. of sup_erio • BIRTHS. On the 22d i ns t., in Stamford-street, the lady or 'F F. O. "D • 'oki Of Esq., of a son . On the 23d inst., i n th e W an d sworth-road, ?Ars. Geo rge V' monds, of a son. FA., On the 23d inst., the lady of Robert Sr AY:ling Cheer Anon' of the Middle Temple, of a daughter. s hopa" On the 23d in s t., M rs . Ch ar l es Harris', o f New-stn ; et, ••" pc' gate, of a son. Char les the IS ly °fOn the 23d inst., at Notnr..filace, Frederick Huth, Vsq., of a so ti n. gh4 On the 24th i nst ., in I.lmad-street-buildin lientY g ~ Mrs. Sharpe, of a son. m ior e• In Orchard-street, P trttnan-square, the '' d i ---a " i, y o Hamilton, of a son. MARRIED. ______-- t the On the lith inst., at Kingston Church, p s outh, and a- Roman, Catholic Chapel, Monsieur Edrr Ar,n Murray, daughter of the late Lord C rine t . neorY On the 6th inst. , at St. Andrew's, ' Holbo e rn je ,.Williant -- ,„ n , Smith, Esq., D.C.L., of Queen'ooll.e ge, Oxford, to lif:WY Q `7, - / i daughter ot the late Simon Field, E sq.s - B adb Valte " e " - of r MUM 9 Oaks, Kent. P. On the 20th inst., at Sutton St . Michael, Major Charlesi ~,, Kennedy, late political agent at Snbathoo, in the 'll inla ' av . ESCI*, .anCoirtteannin, to Louisa u ft et., Mountains, to Charlotte, second daughter of Henry of Freen's-court, Herefor dshire. Robert On the 24th inst., at St. Gs z i;g in e's, ,, Hanov . er.sgerifor lest &ugh' e ueorgiana, Lloyd, Esq., of Liverpool, to Cat ter of IVilliam Tenison, Esq., of Lough Dawn, Mouse na:2:_____-- ------ DI R D. R.N., second son of the late 11 rd Radstock. the Hon. Will'Ada On the Bth inst., in Liverp o On the 20th inst., Captain 0 01-street, Bishvsgat e-street, so. 76 Mrs. Abigail Gumersall, rr lict of the late .Mr.. Xos. Gumer of At ary, the widow ' On the 22d inst., at Car iberwell-grove„ the late Henry Hammond, E. , o of H a . der- At Lisson-grove, on the 2 .l , ` " 'Edward F' derick Pren st inst., re grass, Esq., aged 64.Vialdegraagree; ~0 „. Sir EdAwtinWWinisntd°snoe; BGalyonutcuerst e s r a s n li d ir y e s , on the 21st fht, t., the ....e..- 0 of Sir Edwin Bayntun Sar.dys Bart'. are, Lieutenant -General Charles Corner Rector of -Wit- On the 23d inst., i - n I.' Bk 1 Portman - sq u „,,, Lower er e r,y-street, _ , dia c or apanJ • ~ Hon. East Lai Service, aged 82. bald , On 9 • the -Ist inst., at Hampstead, Thomas, son 0 f John ...,i Es ' - 1 1., Stockwell, Senior Fello• •College, C ambridge, sui wof Cams stone, and - 11 Old -square, Lincoln's-inn, , On th e 23d i nst., Mrs. Laurence, of Chu rtl-4 fre e Stoke t- Newington, aged 72, al M ir ' . On the 23d inst, in Walcot.place, Lambeth, 1 tire. tl. rsu Esq" of tyn, relict of 3 :r. Yaws Martyn On the 9Ath inst., Jane, the . wife of Joshur , Cot hier;.• BrucP•trlrrace, Tottenham, aged 74. _otel , Purdeet, E ssex.ign, ~,,/ On th e 13th i nst., aged 53, Mr, Daniel Hr- the" _ Won: Printed and Published by_ AIU' I WO Y O NGf /4 o• ;at/ 112, Strand, at The str x Office, No 1 .12, Strand ' in di.* of blidti osczt — WO:mday, December 26 1836. Mr. Gathercole was then sworn, and stated that he was Churhwarden, and had demanded the rate of Mr. Arthur Wade, who had refused to pay the same. Cross-examined by Mr. ARNOLD.—Was Church warden the time the rate was made (February 20, 1838) ; is Churchwarden now. Was also Church warden when the rate was demanded—there had been no interruption of his situation as Churchwarden.—Was positive of this. He was re-elected last Easter. On the Learned Counsel intimating that his re-election showed that there must have been some previous cessation of his office, the witness stated that he was elected from " lower" to be " upper" warden. Here several rate-payers exclaimed there was no such office as upper warden, and that he was re-elected to his former situation at Easter.] Witness subsequently stated that he was first elected at Easter, 1837 ; sworn in by the Bishop in May ; then re elected at Easter, 1838, and sworn in afterwards. Mr. Shaw, his present colleague, was noti n office at the time the rate was made, but bad been elected at the time that witness was re-elected. At the time the rate was made, a " budget" of the items of expenses was produced to the Vestry. Mr. ARNOLD then submitted to the Magistrates that the summons against Mr. Wade must be dismissed under the authority ofthe Statute .53, Geo. 111., c. 127, see. 7, Irons which Statute only did they derive any power or jurisdic tion ; it was there provided that " if the validity of the rate were disputed, and the party disputing give notice thereof to the Justices, the Justices shall forbear giving judgment thereon." Now be (Mr. Arnold) did dispute the validity of the rate on these grounds, viz. Ist. Because it was partly retrospective, inasmuch as ie the so-called budget, which he submitted it was not neces- , sary to prove, there were several items of expenditure which had already been incurred. 2(1. That several of such items were for sums paid for purposes unnecessary t o th e - d ecent ce l e b ration of divine , worship—such as "tuning the organ," "winding up the clock," and " mending the beadles' boots." 3d. Because it was unequal, as was elicited by the exa mination of Mr. Whiffin, the collector. 4th. That the same Churchwardens were not in office at the time of the rate being made that were in office at the , - time of its demand. Upon these grounds the Learned Counsel repeated f:nat he submitted the Magistrates would forbear from r,iving judgment. After a short conference the Magistrates decided that, in the face of Mr. Arnold's objections to the rate., they had no power to enforce its payment. The summons aginst Mr. Wade was aceerdingly dis" missed.